Business Tips for Busy Home Improvement Contractors
How to find and convert customers for your home improvement business.
There’s more to creating a successful home improvement business than completing projects. Whether you work in roofing, siding, water treatment systems, or another home improvement field, we have helpful tips and strategies to help you find and convert customers for your business. Explore all our blogs below or search one of these popular topics:
Customer Management
Learn how to nurture and support home improvement leads and customers once they enter your sales funnel.
How to Ask for Referrals
There are countless ways to find new customers for your business. Social media, email marketing, billboards, and…
3 Ways to Get Paid for a $20k Project
Different payment methods can make a big difference in your customer’s monthly payment. Learn how you can…
Tips to Close Sales with Payment Plans
Cash, credit cards and payment plans are the most common options customers use to cover their home…
Business Growth
Find key business tips and techniques to help grow and develop effective business practices.
3 Ways to Get Paid for a $20k Project
Different payment methods can make a big difference in your customer’s monthly payment. Learn how you can…
Offer Monthly Payments with FFC
Whether you are thinking about expanding your business and taking on more customers or just looking for ways to close sales faster, now may be a good time to consider adding financing to your list of sales tools.
Tips to Close Sales with Payment Plans
Cash, credit cards and payment plans are the most common options customers use to cover their home…
Finding Customers
Explore new lead generation techniques and sources to create more customers for your home improvement business.
5 Ways Customers Can Pay for Home Improvement
A recent report from the National Association of REALTORs found that 92% of consumers would remodel more…
Should You Add Financing Options to Your Project Portfolio?
Keeping and sharing examples of your past work can be a great way to show customers the…
3 Tools to Build a Stronger Sales Pitch
Start closing more sales by working these free tools into your sales pitch!
3 Marketing Strategies to Try this Year
Keep your customers engaged and your marketing fresh this summer by trying out some of these strategies.
5 Topics to Engage Your Customers
Building and maintaining an active online presence is an important part of growing a home improvement business,…
Does Your Company Have a Brand?
Your company provides services for people, but your brand is how you set yourself apart from all…
Community
Find ways your business can join and support local communities to create brand trust and loyalty.
Closing Sales During the Holidays
Shopping, wrapping, parties, dinners, family, friends, and more keep homeowners busy this time of year. However, with…
Are You Prepared for These Customer FAQs?
A home is many people’s most valuable asset, so when they start searching for a home improvement…
Blog Topics to Keep Your Website Relevant
You can create huge growth opportunities for your business with a website that has strong SEO. Capitalize…
Tools & Tech
It’s a digital world! Find tools and tech to make running your business and closing sales simpler.
How to Use Your Payment Estimator
Breaking your customer’s project cost into monthly payments can help you meet your customer’s budget needs. Luckily,…
3 Tools to Build a Stronger Sales Pitch
Start closing more sales by working these free tools into your sales pitch!
FFC Partner Benefits You May Not Know About
Helping you offer affordable monthly payments is what we do; but that’s not ALL we do. Find more great benefits that can help you get more from your partnership with Foundation Finance here.
When Is Your Business Successful?
Creating a successful home improvement or home renovation business isn’t easy. Figuring out what you consider a success can sometimes be even harder. Success is often hard to define and as your home improvement business grows and your experience as a contractor develops, your measure of success often does too.
A new business owner working on their first home improvement project may be justified in feeling like the world’s best businessman. However, after a few years and hundreds of closed sales, that same contractor’s perception of success should have shifted to a more ambitious benchmark.
Whether you’re just starting in the home improvement or renovation business or running a nation-wide contracting business, it’s important to set business goals. Business goals often help create and drive success as the business’s employees come together to reach that common goal. These home improvement contractor tips are specially written and collected with the intent to help you create and reach business goals to help you reach your version of success in the home improvement industry.
Social Media
Find strategies to create a strong social media presence and reach more home improvement customers here.